I thought you may like this one;I read a book recently called "Pleasures of the Flesh" by Laurence Haloche and on the cover was a beautiful young Parisian woman, lying naked on her daybed with drapery all around her and I thought to myself, "this will either be a book about the Parisian aristocracy, or about an artist and his lover, or maybe about a woman of pleasure". So one can understand my shock at reading a book about cannibalism!!Check the book out @http://bookywooks.blogspot.com/2010/01/nothing-beats-walk-on-beach.html

When I was in the 5th grade, we had an assignment where we were supposed to read certain number of science fiction books - I was a fantasy reader and did NOT like the assignment, but, whining and dragging my feet, I did the work. If I remember right, this was one of the books that made me realize I actually didn't mind science fiction all that much. The chewed up cover brings back memories - that was the cover of the copy I read. I think all the covers of the sci-fi books we could choose from were terrible - with covers like those, it's not necessarily so surprising that 5th grade me assumed the entire genre was probably crap.

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Just what, exactly, is Judge a Book by its Cover?

I worked in a public library. I saw literally thousands of books every week; the good, the bad, and the truly hideous. These are the covers from the latter category. Joining me (Maughta) is the ever-popular pinch hitter (and handy husband) DocTurtle.

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